P-CEP Bands Press Releases:

Canton – The Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP) marching band competed their 2019 program, Amid Surreal Nights’ Dreams, this past week at the Bands of America Grand National Championships in Indianapolis, IN.
In the initial preliminary round of the competition held on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019 at Lucas Oil Stadium, P-CEP placed 22nd in Class AAAA, and 28th overall out of 91 bands in the nation’s most prominent marching band championship. Their high score of 84.150 and placement qualified them for the semi-finals round held Saturday, Nov. 16,, 2019.
In the semi-finals round, the band...

Jeremy ClearyMarissa MilanovichCANTON, MI – Marissa Milanovich and Jeremy Cleary, students from the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park Band Program, received an outstanding soloist nomination to the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. Receiving a nomination to the Festival is prestigious and a great honor.
The Michigan Youth Arts Festival has been a tradition in the state since 1963. The vision for the festival at that time was that it would be a statewide showcase of the talented student artists in Michigan’s secondary schools and community stud
ios. The event quickly grew as it gathered together many...

Hi everyone! Our schools may be closed today, but the P-CEP Wind Ensemble is still ready to entertain everyone tonight! Please join them for a special send-off concert at the Village Theater of Canton tonight, Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m. The music will be excellent, and the students would appreciate performing in front of a large audience! We hope you can join us!
Tickets are only $6, and can be purchased online here: https://www.cantonvillagetheater.org/439/Performances-by-Month

The Michigan School Band & Orchestra Association (MSBOA) recently announced student placements for the 2019 All-State Ensembles Program. Four students from the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP) band program were selected for an ensemble.
The All-State program consists of five ensembles selected from recorded auditions. This year, 2,700 students auditioned for nearly 400 slots in the program. The selected students will perform on January 26, 2019 in Grand Rapids at the DeVos Center and Amway Grand Hotel. The event is being held in conjunction with the Michigan Music Conference – a...

CANTON, MI – On May 24, 2018, G. Jonathan Thomann, director of bands at the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, received an email from the president of the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association (MSBOA), alerting him that the P-CEP Wind Ensemble, the district’s top band ensemble, was selected to participate as one of the featured performing ensembles at the 2019 Michigan Music Conference (MMC) in Grand Rapids on Friday, January 25, 2019. The MMC is attended by more than 9,000 music educators at the K-12, collegiate, and professional levels, and it is an honor to be selected to perform...

Canton – The Plymouth-Canton Educational Park (P-CEP) marching band competed their 2018 program, Textured, this past week at the Bands of American Grand National Championships in Indianapolis, IN.
In the initial preliminary round of the competition held on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 at Lucas Oil Stadium, P-CEP placed 12th in Class AAAA, and 18th overall out of 108 bands in the nation’s most prominent marching championship. Their high score of 86.800 and placement qualified them for the semi-finals round held Saturday, Nov. 10,, 2018.
In the semi-finals round, the band achieved a score of...